Krav Maga is a philosophy, a set of principles and a tool-kit of techniques.  It was defined and refined through five decades of application: from the barricades of Jewish neighbourhoods in 1930’s Europe, through World War Two, Israel’s War of Independence and the terrorism of the 1970’s and 1980’s by Imi Sde-Or, Eli Avikzar and Boaz Aviram.

When he retired from the IDF, Imi wanted to train civilians in self-defence and he founded the Krav Maga Association.  When Eli Avikzar wanted to step to the side of Imi’s civilian Krav Maga Association, he founded the Israeli Krav Magen Association.  Seems fair: the father of Krav Maga and his first successor each with an association promoting their specialised systems.

Now many years later we now have the Krav Maga Association, International Krav Maga Federation, Krav Maga Global, US KM Association, Israeli Krav Maga Association, Krav Maga Federation, Krav Maga Worldwide to name but a few?

Some of these organisations were founded by students of Imi or Eli; Haim Gideon or Eyal Yanilov , to maintain standards and with a deep desire to promote self defence.  Often is the case that when people are passionate about something they come to believe in, they care more, or know more and this can lead to differences as in the earlier organisations that has led to the situationm now seen in Krav Maga.

Also what needs to be taken into consideration is the commercialisation of Krav Maga, the ‘McDojo’ franchise model, while this does not mean that good quality instructors should be denied making a living from teaching Krav Maga but does become questionable when people training  within an organisation step outside it in order to train & qualify their own instructors and build their own organisation.  Majority of the recognised Krav Maga organisations, or organisation-affiliated instructors have some degree of external moderation and quality control.   However there is nothing to stop someone setting up as ‘Another KM’ and starting a franchise McDojo business wherein they train who they like, and charging whatever they like.

Do your research and find the training that suits you!

 

 

 

Warrior Defence Lab – The Evolution Of Krav

Defence Lab can simply be defined as ‘ A Way of Thinking’ – it is a Lifestyle Approach System, that can help anybody.

The core concept is to get you thinking again, through the use of online training utilizing situation awareness Enabling you to be aware of your environment and what we can do in those situations.

Warrior Defence Lab inspires people in this way to ‘Get you thinking’

Its design as a methodology that can help anybody learning/teaching Krav Maga or Self Defence and Tradaitional Martials Arts.  Enables individuals/Instructors to understand the real truth about Self Defence.